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1960 studio album by Charles Mingus From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 and released on Columbia Records in May 1960.[1][2][3] It is a companion album to his 1959 record Mingus Ah Um, and was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. The title alludes to Mingus's ancestry, which was partially Chinese.[7]
Mingus Dynasty | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 1960[1][2][3] | |||
Recorded | November 1 and 13, 1959 | |||
Studio | CBS 30th Street Studio, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 59:34 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Teo Macero | |||
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Tracks one, three, four, and five were released in their unedited form in 1979 on vinyl and in 1999 on CD. The cuts amount to about eight minutes.[8]
All compositions by Charles Mingus except where noted.
In 2009 Sony's Legacy Recordings released a special, two-disc 50th anniversary edition of Mingus's seminal 1959 album Mingus Ah Um that also includes Mingus Dynasty in its entirety on the second disc.[10]
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